A new Washington Post-Pew Research Center poll found that 56% of Americans consider the NSA's accessing of telephone call records of millions of Americans through secret court orders "acceptable." Read More

MSNBC's Richard Lui interviews Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., about legislation to address the cirisis of sexual assault in the military. Read More

If you love food, you might want to schedule your summer vacation around one of the many festivals around the country. Here are a few, Read More

The Today show reads from the now disabled blog of Lindsay Mills, identified as NSA leaker Edward Snowden's girlfriend. She describes herself as a "pole-dancing super hero." Read More

Turkish riot police on Tuesday unleashed tear gas and water cannons on anti-government protesters in Istanbul's Taksim Square, where demonstrations have gained momentum since they began over a week ago. Read More

Listening to the speech now, JFK’s moral courage on racial issues as well as the heavy lifting still required to attain true racial equality in this nation become poignantly apparent. Read More

A political visionary and founder of The Hotline, Doug Bailey died in his sleep Monday morning at the age of 79. Bailey had one goal in his life: to make the American political system a little better and a little more noble Read More

President Obama makes a public call for immigration reform Tuesday morning ahead of a Senate vote on the bipartisan legislation in the afternoon. Read More

While Hillary Clinton had a Twitter profile as of April, she never actually tweeted -- until now. Even more curious were some of the changes made to the bio on her Twitter page. Read More

Lawyers for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration will try to convince an appeals court on Tuesday to reinstate a ban on large sugary drinks, three months after a judge struck it down at the 11th hour as an illegal overreach of executive power. Read More

The Obama administration will scrap age restrictions on the sale of emergency contraception pills, making the morning-after pill available to women and girls without a prescription. Read More

NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell sat down with National Intelligence Director James Clapper, who vigorously defended the NSA's surveillance programs in an exclusive interview over the weekend. Read More

Jury selection begins in the trial of George Zimmerman who faces charges of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Read More

The father of Trayvon Martin asked for prayers and appealed for peace Monday as potential jurors filed into a Florida courthouse for the trial of George Zimmerman, charged with second-degree murder in the teenager’s shooting death. Read More

Twenty-nine year old Edward Snowden identified himself as the person responsible for leaking the top secret documents about the NSA's surveillance programs. Read More

The source of the NSA leak, Edward Snowden, now joins the list of the country's most famous whistleblowers. Read More

Critics of the Jefferson-Jackson dinners have suggested that Democrats should no longer name their major fundraising celebrations after Andrew Jackson, a president who, as Salon’s Steven Yoder recently wrote, may have been “the most systematic violator of human rights for America’s nonwhites.” Read More

President Obama is set to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping this weekend for a two-day summit at the Annenberg retreat in the California desert. Read More

A judge has intervened in the case of a second child looking to be moved to the adult transplant list for a new lung. Eleven-year-old Javier Acosta was moved to the list temporarily. The same judge on Wednesday ordered that 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan temporarily be put on adult list as well. U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson wrote a scathing ruling calling the current transplant policy discriminatory. Read More

Guest writer Anthea Butler weighs in on the racial symbolism behind this week's GetEQUAL protest of First Lady Michelle Obama, and the reaction to it. Read More